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Painting, from the series "Fashionable Versions of the Four Accomplishments (Furyu kinkishoga)" by Isoda Koryūsai — Japanese Color woodblock print; chuban, c. 1773/75

Painting, from the series "Fashionable Versions of the Four Accomplishments (Furyu kinkishoga)"

by Isoda Koryūsai

Date:
c. 1773/75
Medium:
Color woodblock print; chuban

Description

Two women are shown indoors on a tatami floor: one stands holding up a long hanging scroll painted with a bamboo spray, wearing a salmon-pink kimono patterned with grape clusters and vines over a grey-and-white check under-robe; the other kneels before her in a dark grey-blue robe, holding a slender brush, watching the scroll. A cursive cartouche with the series title fills the upper right corner above trailing wisteria-like foliage hanging from the top edge, and a black lacquer document box sits on the floor to the left. The palette is muted—soft coral, sage green, ochre tatami, and charcoal—consistent with an early color woodblock print (chuban) by Isoda Koryūsai, 1768.

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Painting, from the series "Fashionable Versions of the Four Accomplishments (Furyu kinkishoga)" was created by Isoda Koryūsai (礒田湖龍斎) in c. 1773/75.